Using AWS CloudWatch Internet Monitor

“Is the website down?” These are the most dreaded words for any team supporting a SaaS or e-commerce platform. No site, not even Facebook, is immune to network issues. There have been days where large providers lose their ability to talk to each other due to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) mistakes. When customers can’t use your site or web app, a frenzied investigation begins. But what happens when only certain customers are down, and the problem might be outside your build? How do you detect that? CloudWatch is addressing this and other network issues with the Internet Monitor.

Visibility is the driving force of network management. Many tools can give you insight, but sometimes, it becomes hard to parse issues without a centralized spot. By consolidating critical metrics and offering customizable dashboards, AWS CloudWatch Internet Monitor simplifies the complexity of network management, making it easier to maintain optimal performance and swiftly address issues. Now, you can see different health events throughout the network connections in your AWS environment. You can monitor the IX from other ISPs and service locations in various geographies. Internet Monitor also lets you set up a historical explorer to check against past events and set up some metrics. You can control how long you hold the data in your CloudWatch Logs’ parameters.

You can also set up traffic insights for comprehensive visibility that ensures you have a clear and detailed understanding of your network's operations through internet connectivity. Through Traffic Insights, you can look at performance from different client sites. This data can help with app performance and optimization, SaaS SLAs, and incident response.

Using Internet Monitor, teams can proactively manage outages and incidents, optimize content delivery geographically, and enhance application reliability. It allows your team to monitor through to the customer or your edge as you transverse to AWS Workload. Getting ahead of these issues can greatly increase the user experience of SaaS tools hosted on AWS.

Seamless integration with the AWS ecosystem and enhanced security insights make Internet Monitor a versatile tool that optimizes performance and fortifies your network against potential threats. This dual focus ensures that your network is efficient and secure, aligning with the comprehensive needs of modern business. If you are looking for help optimizing your AWS cloud environment, don't hesitate to get in touch with us at Oxford Global Resources . Our partnership with AWS grants us the knowledge, expertise, and ability to help you implement AWS solutions, regardless of where you are in your cloud journey.